Author Archives: Nina Fedrizzi

In London, 2012, Ian Millar set the record for being the first athlete from any sport, in any nation, to compete in 10 Olympic Games. He capped off the honor...

Sometimes the best way to disguise something of value is to hide it in plain sight. Right under their noses. A place they'll never see it coming. Unless of course,...

If you've ever been (un)lucky enough to experience the human version of a CT scan or MRI, then you probably know the drill: very tight spaces, no movement, super loud clicking...

George Washington was a Revolutionary War hero, a Founding Father, and the first President of the United States. But what you might not know is that he was also a...

Most of the mustangs who become part of the Florence Prison Wild Horse Inmate Progam have never been touched by human hands before, at least not voluntarily. Their first interactions...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlATnb8hT8o Horse shows can be stressful on amateurs. You know this. Your trainer knows this. Yet somehow the two of you are having a failure to communicate. She's explaining your course....

Horses have a reputation for making most things more complicated than they need to be, and it's not entirely undeserved. They come up unsound two days before the horse show....

The barn is a community—like-minded people sharing a very important part of their lives. In the last two weeks, there have been two serious incidents at our barn. During the...

Show horses have difficult jobs. Learning to live life on the road; working long hours in the cold, rain, or shine; standing still for the braider in the wee hours...

It was the dressage scandal that launched 1,000 panicked Facebook comments, but it looks like Carl Hester's London Olympics mount, Uthopia, will stay right where he is supposed to be. The...

This week, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) Deputy Director, Steve Ellis, delivered an address to Congress on the federal agency's most daunting and polarizing responsibility: managing the wild...

Is the world ready for a mainstream riding reality series? Viewers in the U.K. are deciding this month, where the five-part Blue Chip All-Star Academy series is airing on Sky Channel...

She may be known for playing bada*s warrior women (see: Kill Bill's  The Bride and Batman & Robin's Poison Ivy). But Uma Thurman was the one in need of some rescuing while riding horses...

Like lemonade on a hot day, few things go together quite so well as horse showing and the Hamptons. For more than a century, the South Fork of Long Island...

Monday, June 20th kicked off the first official day of summer, and boy does it feel good. The sun is high in the sky, the ice tea is clinking in...

Every rider in every disciple at every level has heard it before: “Riding is not a sport.” And time and time again, every equestrian puts up a fight defending how...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCP4OPv0TNs The horse is by nature a social animal, and their ability to make friends outside their own species is the stuff of endless Internet GIFs and YouTube videos. Horses...

If you happened to catch last night's penultimate Game of Thrones episode, then you know which battle we're referring to. (And yes, there are spoilers ahead for Season 6!) The "Battle of...

“Weird” isn’t a word that often comes up when an athlete describes her Olympic journey.  “Thrilling” maybe, or “emotional”—“exasperating” even—and for Lauren Billys, all those words might apply. But “weird”...

With so many  products to choose from, combatting seasonal insects can be a tough decision. Understanding the options available is a great first step, and Absorbine offers four distinct UltraShield fly control...